How do I make ctest run a program with valgrind without dart?

Question

I want to write a CMakeLists.txt so that I can run my tests normally or with valgrind. I have seen much on integrating ctest with valgrind but all with the assumption that you w

Answer 1

You can generate a minimal 'DartConfiguration.tcl' configuration file using add_custom_target(). Then you can add a valgrind custom target that calls ctest with the appropriate args. This is how I usually do it:

find_program(VALGRIND "valgrind")
if (VALGRIND)
    set(DART_CONFIG DartConfiguration.tcl)
    add_custom_target(${DART_CONFIG}
        COMMAND echo "MemoryCheckCommand: ${VALGRIND}" >> ${DART_CONFIG}
        COMMENT "Generating ${DART_CONFIG}"
    )
    set(VALGRIND_ARGS
        --leak-check=full
        --error-exitcode=255
    )
    set(LOGFILE memcheck.log)
    add_custom_target(valgrind        
        COMMAND ctest -O ${LOGFILE} -D ExperimentalMemCheck --overwrite MemoryCheckCommandOptions="${VALGRIND_ARGS}"
        COMMAND tail -n1 ${LOGFILE} | grep 'Memory checking results:' > /dev/null
        COMMAND rm -f ${LOGFILE}
        DEPENDS ${DART_CONFIG}
    )
endif()

Hope this helps! :-)

Credit: https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/blob/development/CMakeLists.txt#L237